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                    <title>Rites of Passage Summary Part 2</title>
                    <description>How do I summarize a trip of a lifetime in a few minutes Since Ive been back many people Ive met have wanted to know exactly that. It cant be done the range of experience and sights was just too varied. In the end I wrote up a bunch of lists. The second half is below with post references where appropriate. See the previous blog for the first half. Most Unexpected Surprises 1. The in</description>
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                    <title>Rites of Passage Summary Part 1</title>
                    <description>How do I summarize a trip of 35000 miles in a few minutes Since Ive been back many people Ive met have wanted exactly that. It cant be done the range of experience and sights was just too broad. In the end I wrote up a bunch of lists. The first half is below with post references where appropriate. Lessons Learned 1. I love to explore and discover things. I spent the entire trip doi</description>
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                    <title>The Rites of Passage</title>
                    <description>After nine months away being back feels really strange. Home has an odd duality so familiar I can navigate with my eyes closed yet also very different to how I remember it. T.S. Eliot once stated that someone really cant know their home until they go away and its certainly true for me. I finally decided how to handle these feelings with one last day of exploration. Like most Massachusett</description>
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                    <title>Almost Home</title>
                    <description>Today felt strange and wonderful. I walked out of my hotel room and saw something familiar. Not Ive lived here for years familiar but definitely somewhere Ive been before. Its been a long time since I had that impression on this trip. More importantly that horrible cold front finally moved out so the sky was clear and warm. In late November it was warn enough to drop the top </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Virginia/Natural-Bridge/blog-773664.html</link>
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                    <title>The Nations Longest Truck Convoy</title>
                    <description>Today the rain was still falling for the third day straight. That mattered less than it would have earlier because I only want to see the pavement on the way home. Ive seen the hills of Tennessee before when they were covered in beautiful green trees. Now they are bare and brown. Today was a long soggy grind of a drive. On this Interstate I had to deal with the big negative of driving awa</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Tennessee/Crossville/blog-773659.html</link>
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                    <title>Moments in Transition</title>
                    <description>I woke up this morning to a world of grey. That cold front from yesterday had decided to hang around so everything was low overcast clouds and drippy rain. Still my rest last night has improved my spirits and I want to see things. Arkansas is something of an anomaly. Half the state is covered by mountain ranges in a part of the country that is otherwise flat plains. The soil here was incredibly</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arkansas/Morrilton/blog-772654.html</link>
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                    <title>Native American Art</title>
                    <description>I walked out of my hotel this morning and got a surprise. I figured that by this point that all I would see was bare trees and McKittrick Canyon would be my last foliage see Nov 4th. The brown forests along route 66 yesterday did nothing to dispel those thoughts. Unexpectedly Tulsa not only had foliage it was still in color. Wonderful red and yellow trees appeared all over the city. Too bad </description>
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                    <title>Get My Kicks on Route 66</title>
                    <description>On April 19 1995 Oklahoma City became the site of the largest domestic terrorist incident in United States history when antigovernment fanatic Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred Murah Federal Building downtown. The blast killed 139 people an eighth of them children at a day care center. Events six and a half years later pushed this one to a footnote in public consciousness but the hole in the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Oklahoma/Oklahoma-City/blog-771440.html</link>
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                    <title>Home on the Range</title>
                    <description>Oklahoma views itself as the epitome of the American pioneer spirit. The state started out as Indian Territory where tribes forcibly removed from other parts of the US were dumped. These included the Cherokee at the end of the Trail of Tears see May 19th. Eventually white settlers looked on the land as valuable and pushed the federal government to open it. On April 22 1889 they did. Any se</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Oklahoma/Oklahoma-City/blog-771433.html</link>
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                    <title>Unexpected Art</title>
                    <description>Texas does not have a high reputation for art museums. Even for western art the best known public collections are elsewhere. That probably accounts for how few people know that the state has a group of great museums in an unexpected place Fort Worth. The city holds something called the Cultural District with has five museums within ten blocks of each other. Three of them are art museums. Remark</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Texas/Fort-Worth/blog-770331.html</link>
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                    <title>Be Prepared</title>
                    <description>Today began at the National Scouting Museum. Its located in a featureless office park in an outer suburb of Dallas where the Boy Scouts of America moved their headquarters in the late 1970s. In recent decades the Boy Scouts have very loudly injected themselves in this countrys culture wars. I choose to separate the organization as it exists now from how it was back when I was part of it a</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Texas/Irving/blog-770286.html</link>
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                    <title>JFK</title>
                    <description>Dallas has the misfortune of being known by most people as the place where two famous people were shot. JR Ewing thankfully was only a character on the TV series Dallas. President John F Kennedy on the other hand was tragically a real person. His assassination has long fed the conspiracy gristmill. The only place to separate the reality from the rumors to the extent it can be is here in Dall</description>
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                    <title>Dallas goes Bling</title>
                    <description>I spent the day in Dallas a city most Americans associate with big hair flashy lifestyles and enormous egos. Much of that impression comes from a famous TV show set in the city and the antics of the Dallas Cowboys NFL team. In reality the image is closer to reality than many residents would like to admit at least in certain parts of the city. No discussion of Dallas is complete without the t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Texas/Dallas/blog-769051.html</link>
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                    <title>Houston We Have a Problem</title>
                    <description>I began today at one of Houstons most popular tourist site the Johnson Space Center. Its world famous as the place that directs all American manned space flights. All Apollo radio messages started with a reference to Houston including the infamous one from Apollo 13 listed in the blog title. The center requires a drive because it exists on the very edge of the city proper. Civilians get fun</description>
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                    <title>Surreal Houston</title>
                    <description>Houston on the whole feels incredibly surreal. Thanks to the lack of zoning the city has become a sprawling mishmash of an urban area with no rhyme or reason  to its layout. Some of the prettiest spots around here sit next to ugly strip malls municipal buildings are surrounded by warehouses parks appear within sight of oil refineries and skyscrapers grow isolated on the horizon like weeds. My </description>
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                    <title>Oil Art and Football</title>
                    <description>Today I dove into the Houston art scene starting at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. It consists of two modernist buildings across the street from each other. Since this is Houston that street was four lanes wide. To prevent people getting killed the museum built a tunnel between the buildings. It holds one of the museums most remarkable artworks The Light Inside from Texas artist Ja</description>
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                    <title>Hispanic Art</title>
                    <description>Today I explored San Antonios Hispanic artistic legacy. I started at Market Square which my guidebook calls the closest journey to Mexico possible without a passport. The route there passes San Fernando Cathedral the oldest Catholic cathedral in the United States built in 1738. The architecture is based on Spanish Gothic with two tall towers surrounding a central building. The market itself</description>
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                    <title>Historic Texas Pride</title>
                    <description>After some time in this state Ive gotten the impression that Texans view their home a little differently to how most Americans view theirs. People from other states tend to see themselves as US citizens first and residents of their states second. Texans by contrast give the distinct impression that they view themselves as Texas citizens first and US citizens as almost a side effect of that.</description>
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                    <title>Enchanting Texas</title>
                    <description>I drove north through the hill country this morning. I passed through many rolling hills covered in broad leafed trees. Ranches appear along the roadway along with many other houses designed to look like ranches. The scenery continued until I crested a hill and saw three broad granite domes in the distance. They really stick out from the surrounding trees. The domes form the centerpiece of Enchan</description>
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                    <title>Germany meets Texas</title>
                    <description>Fredericksburg has a reputation within Texas as a place to escape. I spent most of the day relaxing except for laundry and other chores. The Laundromat had two things that really showed where I am. Like most it had a few TVs on for people to watch while waiting. In most parts of the country they show soaps. Here they showed football highlights. Not just any highlights either HIGH SCHOOL footb</description>
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